Shadowing Practice: Rolling a Reliant Robin | Top Gear | BBC - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Here we go.
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Reliant robin.
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Oh, no. I've crashed it.
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I've crashed it almost immediately.
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I mean, literally, 20 feet.
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I can't get out, obviously.
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I'm completely stuck.
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Luckily, people in the north of England are friendly and keen to help out.
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Excuse me.
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Boop, boop, boop.
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Excuse me.
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Oh, heavens, look who it is.
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It's Phil Oakey.
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Do you think you could push me back on my wheels?
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Yeah, certainly.
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Thanks very much.
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No way back, sir.
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You're.. thank you so much.
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Thank you very much, Phil Oakey, out of the human league.
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Pleasure.
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I suppose, as a Sheffield boy, Phil Oakey spent a lot of his youth putting Robin Reliance back on their wheels,
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when he wasn't rescuing waitresses from cocktails.
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Help!
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Again, help!
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Where's Martin Frye?
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Out of ABC when you need him.
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That's a useful feature.
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In the early days, the Robin had a 750cc engine.
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With 32 brake horsepower on tap, 0 -50 took 22 seconds.
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0 -60 wasn't really possible.
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In 1975, though, Reliant fitted an 850cc engine.
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This improved the acceleration enormously, but the consequences were catastrophic.
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The big engine increased the top speed, too.
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It would now do 85, and that was catastrophic as well.
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Oh, not again!
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Oh, no. I'm 50 years old.
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I'm on the side on a street in Sheffield.
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Oh, is that the sound of somebody?
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Hello?
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Hello.
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Peter Stringfellow.
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Were you just walking by, or...?
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Oh, nearly.
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Yes.
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Thank you so much, Peter Stringfellow, out of lap dancing clubs.
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My pleasure.
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Really, I can't thank you enough.
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To try and understand why the robin was so popular up north, I pulled over to chat to some enthusiasts.
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How do you drive a Reliant?
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Straight lanes.
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You don't go round roundabouts.
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You get to it and you see where you're coming off and you go straight across.
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Right.
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Try to avoid the middle.
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Right.
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps.
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Cement?
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps balance.
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Why do you think Reliant owners have big toolboxes? To weigh it down.
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I was going to say, your teeth.
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Did you lose these in a Reliant accident?
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You did, didn't you?
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Why do you think, everybody, Reliance was so popular at North?
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A lot of miners used them.
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Yeah, but why?
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Because they were more expensive than minis.
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No, because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes, and they didn't have a full driving licence.
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So to get out of weather in winter, when it were absolutely siling it down, they bought a Reliant.
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So, it was just because miners didn't have a driving licence?
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Some of them, but other ones, also in winter, with them being light, you'll get your normal car stuck in snow or whatever.
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These just simply glide over the top of it.
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Until you get to a corner.
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Well, as long as you live somewhere with a straight line to a pit.
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Soon, I was back on my perilous journey.
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In this, it feels like I'm driving through South Yorkshire in the 1970s again.
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Because I grew up not far from here, so did James May for that matter.
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But now we're a lad round here.
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Whole rich people, them's as good a food.
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It's all wheels on the car.
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They all had larders, lardy -dars, we called them.
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You didn't want to hit one of them, I'd tell you that for no. They were built like tanks.
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One of the best ways to protect your robin was to lavish it with an exotic paint job, such as this Starsky and Hutch homage.
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The idea was that having spent many hours with the spray cans and the masking tape, you'd drive more carefully.
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But this didn't always work.
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It really is a wonder how anyone in the north survived the 1970s.
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Of course, a lot didn't.
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In 1971, the population of Sheffield was 573 ,000.
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Since then, it's dropped to just 513 ,000.
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Some of the lost 60 ,000 moved down south, of course, but many, many,
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many more were wiped out by their three -wheelers.
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Today, of course, most of the Robins are gone and people up here drive Kias and Hyundai's instead.
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And this means the local TV news channel has to think of things other than reliant crashes to put in its bulletins.
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OK, to Braithwell in South Yorkshire now and a blooming mystery that's baffling its green -fingered residents.
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Harry is there for us.
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Harry, what's going on?
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Welcome here to beautiful Braithwell.
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You can see the sun exploding on a kaleidoscope of colour.
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And I have to say, there's been a real area of controversy here because...
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Oh, well, that's been big.
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My God!
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Are you all right, sir?
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Are you all right?
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Yeah, I'm getting used to it now, thanks.
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Oh, all right.
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Thanks very much.
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If you could just plop me back on the wheels.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Harry Grayson, out of Luke North.
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Pleasure.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze video bevat 111 zinnen en 823 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:29. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 110 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 80% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| robin zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | roodborstje |
| cement zelfstandig naamwoord | /səˈmɛnt/ | cement |
| miner zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ | mijnwerker, kompel |
| passenger zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | passagier |
| sack zelfstandig naamwoord | /sæk/ | zak |
| catastrophic bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/ | catastrofisch |
| finger zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | vinger |
| rescue werkwoord | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | bevrijden, redden |
| carefully bijwoord | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | voorzichtig |
| mystery zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | mysterie |
| resident zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | inwoner |
| mask zelfstandig naamwoord | /mæsk/ | masker |
| controversy zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/ | controverse |
| keen bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /kin/ | scherp |
| consequence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | gevolg, consequentie |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| grow up werkwoord | opgroeien |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've crashed |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | were built · were wiped |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 24 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals didn't, I'm, can't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, kaleidoscope /kəˈlaɪ.dəˌskoʊp/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als robin, cement, miner.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.